I'm sure Australia actually banned it for ruining the sugar coated nostalgia of the first games with another generic shooter.

Clearly the solution is that I, as the only decent driver around, will be the only person allowed to drive myself, while everybody else must be using these Google cars.

I just installed Chrome immediately after installing Mint, and never really noticed this. But this is pretty inexcusable...

Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I use a filter (admittedly crude, since the filtering in Outlook sucks) to do an initial break up of the incoming emails (roughly 4-500 on a daily basis). Essentially a don't-bother-at-all folder, keep-an-eye-on folder, probably-needs-attention folder + plus some archiving folders for stuff like CVS diffs and things like that, that may or may not be automated. Everything else goes in my inbox, but it cuts my inbox from 500 daily emails to about 20-30 which is much more managable. I also know which folders contains what when I need to do a search, which cuts down search time significantly.

Oh there's a big surprise! That's an incredible - I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die of not surprise!

Sony did the same when they launched PS3 and the sales were quite lacklustre, so they could give more impressive sales figures.

Aww, that's too bad, maybe their business model doesn't work then.

I see your point that book shops should quit whining and do something instead. You're absolutely right. But why should Amazon get a free pass when it comes to sales tax? That it's complicated because they are a centralised organisation shipping to multiple destinations, then it's really a case of taken the good with the bad. Otherwise they must split out their warehouses according to where they ship if it makes it easier for them.

Their laptops suck. We for some reason have them at my company and they keep breaking. They make nice servers though a bit overpriced.

What's to stop you from backing up their sensitive data and creating your back doors before you hand in your letter of resignation? If you treat your employees well, and create an atmosphere of mutual respect, when the time does come to part ways, the last month or two of employment can be constructively used to tie up loose ends and easing the transition to the next guy. If you, as an employer, have a policy of escorting someone from their workstation the moment they hand in their resignation, you're basically paying someone to twiddle their thumbs while your remaining employees scramble to cover for the guy who now is suddenly gone with no warning, while they must be thinking whether it's really worth it, just to get the same treatment when they are leaving. The "Perp walk" is just as petty a show of revenge as the guy in TFA and as damaging to the future your remaining employees to do their job. The only difference is that it is unfortunately not illegal.

If they can delude the word enough, they will have won (or they'll think they have won).

Yeah fuck them! How dare they play games when they don't even have internet.

You kinda have a point.

Since we are for some reason going back to the mainframe doctrine of computing (with cloud computing), X, which were originally designed with mainframes, and centralised processing in mind, actually makes sense again.

The question is, how about the rest of us who wants something optimized for the desktop?

I personally don't believe (or hope) that we're not going to get rid of the X codebase overnight, certainly it has its place, but there are limitations where you can either choose to fix it, or decide that the application is not suitable for your purposes, and replace it with something that's better. I think for what a lot of people want to do with Linux, Wayland is better than X.

I stand corrected.

That is very very true. However if this makes people face the fact that the direction the US economy has going for the last 10 years is not healthy, then I'd say they have finally served their purpose.

I take it you missed the 98th birthday commemoration last year?